Come a comprar in piazza il poponi,
Ne tagliarete cento e fra cotanti
A pena due ne treverete bueni,
Cos? hoggid?, fra lingue tante e tante
Che fanno bel veder di fuora via
Due per cento rispendene al sembiante.
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Satire, II., IX. — "A Benedetto Barbarigo."
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Translation: As when you melons in the market buy. You’ll cut a hundred, and, amongst the pile, ’Tis hard if you two good ones shall espy. So, in our day, of all the tongues we deem, From outward showing, free from every guile, But two per cent, are really what they seem.
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Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 277.Pietro Nelli
Una corazza serve a cento brighe.
Giovanni Maria Cecchi
(Faceva far cento) castelli in aria.
Francesco Bracciolini
Chi scappa d’un punto ne schifa cento.
Bernardo Dovizi
Uno scudo in borsa fa pi? onore di cento scudi buttati inutilmente.
Sixtus V (pope)
Things have gone downhill since Mom decided a modal average dose of old-time religion was an essential part of her upbringing, to the point that absolutely the best thing in the world Tante Annette could send her is some scam programmed by Daddy to take her away. If it doesn’t work, Mom will take her to Church tonight, and she’s certain she’ll end up making a scene again. Amber’s tolerance of willful idiocy is diminishing rapidly, and while building up her memetic immunity might be the real reason Mom’s forcing this shit on her—it’s always hard to tell with Mom—things have been tense ever since she got expelled from Sunday school for mounting a spirited defense of the theory of evolution.
Charles Stross
Nelli, Pietro
Nelson, Horatio
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